Synopses & Reviews
The fifth installment in Jasper Ffordeandrsquo;s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Ffordeandrsquo;s famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once- hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a fewandmdash;all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. Thursdayandrsquo;s zany investigations continue with Our Thursdays is Missing. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including Jasper Ffordeandrsquo;s latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!
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Review
Playful . . . Its not hard to see what this enthusiasm is about. . . . Its easy to be delighted by a writer who loves books so madly.
Janet Maslin, The New York Times
What keeps this series humming is Ffordes lively engagement with books and the indefatigable woman hes created to defend them.
John Freeman, People
Richly crammed with jokes, ideas, and action. Brainier silliness is hard to find.
USA Today
The BookWorld seems to have encouraged Ffordes rogue imagination to escape all fetters and really go wild.
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Synopsis
The fifth installment in Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England--from the author of The Constant Rabbit Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Fforde's famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a few--all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself.
Synopsis
Literary sleuth Thursday Next is once again out to make the world safe for fiction in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.
Synopsis
The fifth installment in Jasper Ffordeandrsquo;s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Ffordeandrsquo;s famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once- hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a fewandmdash;all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. Thursdayandrsquo;s zany investigations continue with Our Thursdays is Missing. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including Jasper Ffordeandrsquo;s latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!
Watch a Windows Media trailer for this book.
About the Author
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next novels, which includes
Lost in a Good Book,
The Well of Lost Plots,
Something Rotten,
First Among Sequels,
One of Our Thursdays is Missing, and
The Woman Who Died A Lot. The series has more than one million copies (and counting) in print. He is also the author of
The Big Over Easy and
The Fourth Bear of the Nursery Crime series,
Shades of Grey, and books for young readers, including
The Last Dragonslayer. Visit jasperfforde.com.